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Show ON THE HOME FRONT RENT CONTROL The first step towards extending extend-ing government rent control to every section of the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain States has been taken with the designation of all areas not yet under control as "defense rental areas," Clem W. Colllina, regional administrator for the Office Of-fice of Price Admlnstration, announced. an-nounced. Under the terms of the Emergency Emer-gency Price Control Act of 1942, as passed by Congress, the government cannot immeliately enforce control n new areas. Collins Col-lins explained. The act requires that the areas first be designated and that a 60-day period elapse after designation before rent control con-trol can be enforced by federal officials. of-ficials. An OPA order issued last week designated as "defense rental areas" ar-eas" that portion of the state "not heretofore designated by the price administrator as part of any defense rental area." The order was issued separately for each of the six Rocky Mountain states Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming. OPA previously had designated specific defense rental areas in each of the six states, and areas have been brought under full federal fed-eral control in all of the , states except Montana. Of the twenty-two previously designated defense rental areas in the six states, eleven already have been under full federal control. con-trol. Final control action will be taken in the remaining eleven areas ar-eas as soon as posiblt, Collins said. Until the machinery of federal control can be placed in operation in every section of our six states," Collins declared, "we ask landlords land-lords and tenants to cooperate with the President's war-time program pro-gram for controlling the cost of living, and to keep rents from exceeding ex-ceeding those in effect last March. The maximum rent date for the newly-designated, all-inclusive areas is March 1, 1942. 24, 000 PERSONAL CALLS WILL SEEK 'INDUSTRIAL' SCRAP A voluntary force of 250 salesmen sales-men will make four personal calls on each of the more than 6,000 industrial firms in the Rocky Mountain region in the next 90 days in a determined drive to gather "dormant" scrap and unused machines into the National Salvage Program, Malcolm Mal-colm H. Carpenter, regional chief of WPB's Industrial Salvage Section, Sec-tion, announces. During September, 263 industrial indus-trial plans in five mountain states shipped 14,698 tons of scrap, he said. The new drive will be staged stag-ed to increase the number of cooperating co-operating plants and the tonnage, State totals for September shipments ship-ments were: Colorado, 6.564; Montana, 3,194; New Mexico, 1,322; Utah, 1,318;; and Wyoming 920 tons. ODT ASSURES SCHOOL BUSES TO OPERATE THIS WINTER The boys and girls of the West who must ride schools buses are assured by Asa J- Merrill, regional region-al director of the Office of Defense De-fense Transportation, that they will continue td get to their classes class-es this winter. But that the continuance of essential es-sential transportation service depends, de-pends, he said, "on the strict and immediate application of ODT conservation policies to bus equipment equip-ment by states and local school . authorities. SCRAP YARDS OF REGION SHIP 40,033 TONS TO WAR Scrap yards and auto graveyards grave-yards of the Rocky Mountain region re-gion sent into war production during dur-ing September 40,033 tons of iron and steel scrap, 1,346,364 pounds of non-ferrous metals and 920,-667 920,-667 pounds of rubber, E. J. Blank-enfield, Blank-enfield, regional chief of WPR's Auto Graveyard Section, reported this wek. SCHOOLS TI WIN AWARDS IN CURRENT SALVAGE DRIVE Two schools in each of the Rocky Mountain states will win "certificates of merit," signed by officials of the War Production Board, for their diligence and accomplishments ac-complishments in the current school salvage drive, L. J. Tod-hunter, Tod-hunter, regional WPB salvage chief, announced, drive |